Gevorg Hakobyan, Armen Hovhannisyan, Mher Martikyan, Armen Tadevosyan and Taron Grigoryan from Gyumri, members of Aratta Band, will be supported with the travel grant to visit Istanbul, for holding a number of concerts and visiting some schools to conduct open lessons on Armenian music for school children.

Օne of their concerts will take place on Friday, February 24th at Kumbara Kafe (Katip Mustafa Çelebi, Küçük Parmakkapı Sk. No:9, 34433 Beyoğlu).

The band was founded in 2013 by Armen Hovhannisyan, the guitarist of the Band. The Band has a unique style by underlining the motives of ethnic Armenian music spiced with elements of various genres. The Band also authors several pieces.

Eurasia Partnership Foundation (EPF) in collaboration with TOG (Community Volunteers Foundation, Turkey) organised an exchange visit of Armenia-based youth workers and volunteers to Istanbul, Izmit and Eskişehir on July 18-23, 2017 implemented as a part of EPF’s YouthBank activity within the framework of programme Support to the Armenia-Turkey Normalisation Process, funded by the European Union.